ENGERMAN HONORED FOR CAREER CONTRIBUTIONS

Engerman

Stanley Engerman, the John H. Munro Professor of Economics and professor of history whose groundbreaking work on the economic growth of the Americas has been internationally recognized for decades, continues to inspire new generations of scholars.

More than 40 leading economists and historians from the United States and Europe -including Nobelists and Pulitzer Prize winners-gathered on campus for a three-day conference to celebrate Engerman's scholarly contributions to economics and history.

Especially known for his work on the history of slavery, Engerman has coauthored or coedited 17 books and more than 100 articles.

His 1974 analysis with Nobel Laureate (and former Rochester professor) Robert Fogel on the economic underpinnings of slavery, Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, remains a landmark study for its reinterpretation of data about the daily lives of slaves and the economics of the plantation.

"There are few economists who have contributed as much in a field as has Engerman in economic history," says Ronald Jones, chair of the Department of Economics. "His office serves as a meeting place for scholars from around the globe, both to solicit advice from the master himself and to avail themselves of his enormous collection of relevant books, articles, and pamphlets."

On the Rochester faculty for 38 years, Engerman is past president of the Economic History Association and the Social Science History Association. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been a member of many academic editorial and advisory boards.

His career includes a long collaboration with Fogel as well as joint projects with leading historians and economic historians. He coedited the three-volume Cambridge Economic History of the United States and coedited A Historical Guide to World Slavery.

In addition to Time on the Cross, which won the 1975 Bancroft Prize for American history, Engerman coedited Between Slavery and Free Labor: The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century; British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery; The Lesser Antilles in the Age of European Expansion; and Slavery: A Reader.

A graduate of New York University with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in business administration, Engerman received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1962. He joined the Rochester faculty in 1963, becoming professor of economics and of history in 1971.

He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was elected Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge for 1998-99.

At recent meetings of the American Economic Association, Engerman was honored with two different sessions devoted to his work.

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